The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.